Eric Davis writes:
 > I'm probably brain farting really badly today, but here goes a question.
 > I have a client who wants to do an email address like [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 > and qmail is refusing to deliver to the mailbox.  I am using alias files
 > to redirect the email to the right account such that the alias file
 > a-who.am.i has the value of [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Try this:

echo '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >~alias/.qmail-who:am:i

When a filename is constructed, dots are replaced with colons.  This
prevents tricks with ../../../, while still allowing the use of
".qmail-foo/bar".

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